Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation

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Roger Housden
Harmony/Rodale, 18 dec 2007 - 192 pagina's
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver

This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours.

In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson.

The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.

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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
6
We Shall Not Cease from Little Gidding
13
I Am Not I by Juan Ramón Jiménez
19
On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar
25
Sweet Darkness by David Whyte
34
Oceans by Juan Ramón Jiménez
41
A Homecoming by Wendell Berry
48
Gift by Czeslaw Milosz
59
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
102
This Only by Czeslaw Milosz
108
The Swan by Rainer Maria Rilke
114
The Unknown Flute by Kabir
120
Eyes by Czeslaw Milosz
126
A Strange Feather by Hafiz
132
The Holy Longing by Johann Wolfgang
138
Dust by Dorianne Laux
145

I Thank You by E E Cummings
68
Parkinsons Disease by Galway Kinnell
74
Oddjob a Bull Terrier by Derek Walcott
80
Sometimes a Man by Rainer Maria Rilke
87
Oatmeal by Galway Kinnell
93
Index of First Lines
165
Weathering by Fleur Adcock 29
169
Notice by Steve Kowit
171
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ROGER HOUSDEN is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Ten Poems to Change Your Life and Ten Poems to Open Your Heart, and also a recent novella, Chasing Rumi. He gives recitals of ecstatic poetry from the world’s great literary and spiritual traditions. He lives in Woodstock, New York. You can email him at tenpoems@juno.com.

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